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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls, and I'm joined by James Seif and Fraser Nelson.

So, as Ukrainian politicians warn that the situation is only going to get worse in the coming days, as Russia plans more attacks,

Boris Johnson is attempting to get on the front foot and lead the West with a six-point plan.

James talk us through that

plan. Is it meaningful action or is it more principles to show he's doing something? I think you

placed it in the New York Times. I think it's designed to show the kind of the UK is on the front foot,

which has been proved vindicated in various strategic judgments, most notably that Putin

was actually planning to invade Ukraine,

something that several other countries doubted, although I think even the British didn't

quite anticipate the kind of full-blown nature of it. And in terms of things like sanctions

on cutting Russia off from Swift, the UK has, I think, been ahead of a game. I mean, you know,

if you read the reporting in the

US press at the weekend making the point that the British had led the charge on that, where the UK is

a laggard, which is what this economic crime bill is trying to deal with, is in terms of

sanctioning individual oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin. I mean, the UK is really struggling to do

that. I don't think it has enough lawyers. We've developed

best things to look at it. I think it is struggling with the proportionality clause. So if you look at

the economic crime, but one of the things the government is trying to do is basically say that

the UK can sanction anyone sanctioned by either the EU or the US as a kind of workaround. But obviously

legislation takes time to get on the book. So I think that the UK

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